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Class of 2007 (Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)

Every year the Career Center conducts an annual survey of the initial postgraduate activities of Bachelor’s degree students. Our primary focus for this report is to provide students interested in this major with examples of the wide variety of employment and graduate school choices past students have made. Data for 2007 includes survey responses from Summer 2006, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007. For more information on how the survey data was obtained, go to Survey Data Collection.

Please note: Beginning with the 2006 survey year, students with double and triple majors are represented in each of their majors, whereas in past years their data were only presented in their primary major.


Response Rate
Graduated Responded Percent    
98 56 57%    

Activity Summary
Employed Attending
Grad School
Seeking
Employment
Other
Endeavors
 
54% 28% 16% 2%  

Employment Sectors & Average Salary*
For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Average Salary*
85% -- -- 15% $60,808

*Not all respondents reported salary. Majors with four or less reported salaries have no salary information shown to protect the confidentiality of student data.

Employment
Employer Job Title    
Air Liquide Process Engineer    
Alza Corp GOLD Engineer    
Boston Scientific Engineer    
California Dept of Health Services Sanitary Engineer    
ChevronTexaco Chemical Engineer    
ChevronTexaco Process Engineer    
DOW --    
Fluor Corp. Associate Specialty Engineer    
Fluor Corporation Engineer    
Impax Laboratories Technical Services Scientist    
Intel Corp Facility Engineer    
Intel Corp Process Engineer    
JM Hyde Consulting, Inc. Pharmaceutical Engineer    
Johnson and Johnson GOLD Associate    
JSR Micro Inc Production Engineer    
Merck and Company Inc Associate Manufacturing Engineer    
Merck and Company Inc Process Engineer    
Merrill Lynch and Company Inc Financial Analyst    
NorthernStar Natural Gas LLC LNG Project Engineer    
Samsung Electronics Engineer 1    
SembCorp Industries (Singapore) Engineer    
Shaw Group Engineer I    
Shell Oil Company And Subsidiaries Lab Technician/Engineer    
Singapore Government Senior Officer    
United States Army Enlisted Personnel    
United States Department of Energy Nuclear Engineer    
Valero Associate Process Engineer    
Valero Energy Corporation Associate Process Engineer    
Verisign Inc Analyst    
-- Process Engineer    

Graduate Study
Field Degree School  
Chemical Engineering PhD New College of California  
Chemical Engineering PhD Northwestern University  
Chemical Engineering PhD Princeton University  
Chemical Engineering PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
Chemical Engineering PhD Stanford University  
Chemical Engineering PhD Stanford University  
Chemical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Chemical Engineering PhD University of Illinois at Urbana  
Chemical Engineering PhD University of Texas at Austin  
Chemistry, General PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Construction Management Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering PhD --  
Law JD(Law) Rutgers University-Newark  
 
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